volute

Examples of volute in the following topics:

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • The Ionic Order is most easily identified by its voluted capital.
  • They were shaped like a bell-shaped mixing bowl and ornamented with a double row of acanthus leaves above which rose voluted tendrils splayed.
  • Corner capital in the Ionic style with a diagonal volute, showing also details of the fluting separated by fillets.

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • One of the most famous early Athenian black-figure pots is a large volute krater by the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias, known as the François Vase.
  • Athenian black-figure volute krater.

• Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

  • The capital consists of a double layer of acanthus leaves and stylized plant tendrils that curl up towards the abacus in the shape of a scroll or volute.